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Flannan Isles Lighthouse Keepers: The disappearance (blog.nrscotland.gov.uk)

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During the Lighthouse’s operation, fortnightly reliefs were carried out until the disaster of December 1900. Prior to the discovery that the men were missing, the light had not been seen on the islands from the nearest point on Lewis, 16 miles away, for 10 days.

At the time three Lightkeepers were on duty at the lighthouse: James Ducat, Principal Lightkeeper; Thomas Marshall, Assistant Lightkeeper; and Donald McArthur, Occasional Keeper, who was on duty for William Ross (Assistant Lightkeeper) who was absent on sick leave. One other Assistant Lightkeeper, Joseph Moore, was on shore duty on Breasclete.

It was concluded that the men must have left the lighthouse for some purpose in this weather, perhaps to secure some gear or to ascertain what damage had been done. With Moore’s knowledge of the lightkeeper’s working clothes, Muirhead could guess that they had made their way to the landings:

“When the accident occurred, Ducat was wearing sea boots and a waterproof, Marshall sea boots and oilskins, and as Moore assures me that the men only wore those articles when going down to the landings, they must have intended, when they left the Station, either to go down to the landings or the proximity of it”.

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